Marc Buyens

Bonheiden, Belgium
Marc Buyens
just choosing paths...
Analyst, management consultant and managing director of Xpragma

Marc founded Xpragma in 1999 after a 20+ years career in the IT-sector where he held various technical, commercial and management positions in companies such as CIG (later acquired by CSC), Tandem Computers (now: HP) and Candle Corporation (now: IBM).

His current interests focus on the boundary of technological evolution, organisational change and business strategy: a messy world of unfulfilled promises.

Some of Marc's ideas and insights are published via the Xpragmatic View, a regular column on his website, http://www.xpragma.com/, also available as an RSS-feed at http://www.xpragma.com/english/rss/xpven.xml.

MSc - Civil Engineer electromechanics - Catholique University of Leuven (Belgium), MBA - Vlerick Leuven Ghent Management School (Belgium).

Private interests: nature, music, literature, travel, philosophy, cosmology, modern art

Marc's Websites

www.xpragma.com

www.xpragma.com/english/rss/xpven.xml

www.xpragma.be

www.xpragma.be/dutch/rss/xpvnl.xml



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  • Add items shared with you to interest feed

    Comment added by Marc Buyens on 11/30/2008
    That is correct. However, the problem (for me) is that I pay little attention to such e-mail messages. I work a lot off-site at customer premises where I prefer not mixing my personal stuff and theirs. Therefore, I only read my personal e-mail once or twice a day. At such moment, I mostly ignore ...
  • Holarchy

    Comment added by Marc Buyens on 11/10/2008
    Very valid points and very visually described. I like the idea of diving managers. Still, nothing blocks them from doing so today. In fact, most of what you describe can also be possible in a traditional hierarchical organisation. Perhaps no natural fit, but still possible and I can even say ...
  • Holarchy

    Comment added by Marc Buyens on 11/09/2008
    Interesting questions and the very essence of the twine I started myself on “Organisational change”. Unfortunately, there is no straightforward answer. Rearranging the boxes in a graph is an interesting starting point for discussion, but does not provide a solution. As an example, in your ...
  • Bug: twining a twine

    Comment added by Marc Buyens on 11/04/2008
    I do not know whether this is a valid alternative for you, but bookmarking the RSS feed of the twine does seem to work. Of course, clicking this bookmark will not present you the summary page of the twine, but will display its content in the default RSS display form of your browser. Still, ...
  • New UI

    Comment added by Marc Buyens on 10/16/2008
    Yes, indeed, I have to agree, some major improvements have been released. For the first time. the interest feed really becomes a useful tool for navigating new content. In addition, as Twain already mentioned, the recommendation engine behaves quite differently now. I cannot judge to what extent ...
  • New Note

    Comment added by Marc Buyens on 09/18/2008
    I have installed Chrome on my PC for website testing purposes. Chrome nicely copied all my Firefox bookmarks and also the Twine bookmarklets. Both of them function normally, but I only did a couple of tests. MarcB
  • Are My Items meant to be public?

    Comment added by Marc Buyens on 09/05/2008
    You are right. This seems to be OK now. I repeated the test I did earlier and I no longer find any private items when I access my profile page or the My Items list as a non-registered user. Great! MarcB
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